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Gymnocarpium dryopteris (western oak fern; western oakfern)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Gymnocarpium dryopteris (Western Oakfern, Common Oak Fern, Oak Fern or Northern Oak Fern) is a fern of the family Cystopteridaceae. It is widespread across much of North America and Eurasia. It has been found in Canada, the United States, Greenland, China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and most of Europe.
View Wikipedia Record: Gymnocarpium dryopteris

Infraspecies

Carpogymnia dryopteris var. dryopteris
Polypodium dryopteris var. dryopteris

Attributes

Height [1]  14 inches (.35 m)
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Fern
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Shady
Soil Acidity [2]  Mostly Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist

Protected Areas

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hyalopsora aspidiotus[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0